Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, the United States' first programmable computer.
Prosperity is best understood as the accumulation of solutions to human problems.
—Alex Pentland in Social Physics
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?